Posted on 04/27/2015 4:38:12 AM PDT by Enlightened1
On another thread, BA explained how yams are native to a grow well in Africa. Rice does not grow well. She also pointed out that yams produce more calories than rice per acre. Finally, yams contain the same vitamin that golden rice was engineered to contain. She not only has a scientific background, but she also grew up in Africa.
Also, stop name calling and projecting beliefs onto me. It’s unbecoming of a conservative. That’s not why we’re here.
***Chipotle Mexican Grill on Monday will begin serving only food that is free of genetically engineered ingredients. ***
Does that also include hybrid products like corn, tomatoes, fruits and other vegies?
In the past, farming communities have always harvested their crops and kept the best and biggest of the natural grains to replant and they ate the rest. the biggest grains would then produce bigger grain crops in the future.
With hybrid products, two different species of corn or grain would produce extra big grains, but if you then replant those grains you will find the ears are sterile and no grain is produced.
***How did we feed Africa before 1994 (GMOs) ***
Rhodesian agriculture fed all of Africa. Now Zimbabwe(former Rhodesia) can not feed itself.
Try shopping the organic section. If you need more info I suggest you go here
The Non-GMO Project
> Peoples opposition to GMO food is rooted in superstition and lack of scientific knowledge.
You really drank the Monsanto Koolaid, didn’t you?
I don’t give a rat’s back end about corn.
I do care about GMO tomatoes. I eat GMO tomatoes and I can count on 2 to 3 days of stomach pain and being sick. I eat non-GMO tomatoes and they are tasty and I am fine. My doctor discovered this I didn’t.
Since early farming, man has altered his food through selection etc. Grafting itself is thousands of years old.
Food Nazis would rather have half the earth’s population starve. Conservatives should never give aid and comfort to such whackos.
“You really drank the Monsanto Koolaid, didn’t you?”
No I actually pay attention to science, fact and logic. The same way I see global warming as a hype; and creation the Agenda 21 who want to control the population.
Opposition to GMO products is generally a product of lack of scientific knowledge and emotion.
If that offends you; then not my worry.
You are affected by one specific product that is tomato based. Sorry to hear something made you sick, but what facts do you have that prove the part that makes you sick is tied to any GMO agents in it?
If a specific tomato makes you sick; how do you know it isn’t something unique to that tomato that has nothing to do with the GMP part of it?
Or maybe something on the specific farm that produced it?
Millions have been poisoned by man’s attempt to chemically “enhance” GOD’S creation.
I will be the first to agree that comparisons get tricky fast. USDA annually reports on consumer food expenditures as a percentage of disposable income. By this measure, American consumers pay the lowest food prices in the world. But then ....
Americans buy convenience. The farmgate price of commodities purchased at the grocery store, IIRC, is about 15 cents on the dollar. 85 percent of what you are spending is for processing, transportation, marketing, packaging, refrigeration, labor, etc. The U.S. system gives us 24/7 access to an incredibly diverse global food system, as well as high food safety and quality. This all comes at a price. We then compound the price by buying convenience foods; for a lot of Americans, "cooking" now means popping something into the microwave.
On top of that, the "food away from home" component of the total food dollar is pushing 50 percent. That's everything from McDonald's to five star restaurants to vendors at the ballpark.
In any developed country, one can dramaticslly cut food costs by eating more of the basics and doing actual food preparation and cooking. But who has the time?
If lactose intolerance rates are going up, you haven't provided any evidence of it. My father was lactose intolerant from birth in 1937, what do you suppose was the causation?
That said, I would expect lactose intolerance in the U.S. to be increasing, as the only people on earth who are overwhelmingly lactose tolerant are of northern European decent, and the percentage of such people in our population is decreasing.
I misread the last point you made.
Do you have any proof of that? I’m 49 and don’t know a single person that has developed lactose intolerance as an adult.
There are hundreds of thousands of people, mainly children, going blind and dying from VAD in Asia every year. Golden Rice provides an immediate solution to this death and suffering. Why would you need anyone to explain this to you, and why wouldn't you take on Greenpeace and other Luddite members of the culture of death to make it available to those who need it most? That would be the conservative thing to do. Right?
Because the rice is also being pushed on Africa.
Since you will not engage in proper dialogue, I will no longer take part in this back and forth.
Peace be with you.
The only GMO tomato ever introduced commercially was the Flavr Savr from 1994-1997 and it contained no genes for any toxin.
There’s essentially no such thing as GMO-free corn or soybeans in the U.S. as even non-GMO fields cross pollinate with GMO fields miles away to the point that testing non-GMO grains show that they ‘re usually at least 1% GMO.
So Chipotle is kidding both themselves and their customers.
Why?
I'm happy with healthy, high quality, low priced food.
Organic is food for those who chose that kind of food. I grew up with that kind of food, I have earned the right to have better now.
The starving people I pictured in my post up thread don't care, they just want food.
The Luddites have demanded that they starve.
My mother made pretty much everything from scratch, so I got used to that early on. With practice, and keeping meals fairly simple (meat, potatos/pasta/rice, some veggies) and making larger portions that last for a few days, it's quicker than going out. I feel that I eat well, and it's not food that is ever a budget consideration. Housing is the big #1.
Hey, good beer (liquid bread) is cheap here, and that's about 50% of my calorie intake...;-)
Why do they hate science?
The term 'Food Luddite' was coined by Steve Forbes in 2014.
Back when the term Luddite was first used more than a century ago it described those who wanted to destroy the mechanical machines that were replacing human labor.
Today and it helps people identify those who wish to destroy the machine built by the American Farmer. That machine feeds us, and also a large part of the world outside our borders.
I don't know if you are a Food Luddite, but if you are, you should wear the badge proudly, because the Luddite project of sending millions into starvation thus far has been an enormous undertaking.
Just curious-——how much would a kilo of bananas retail for at an ALDI in a German store if you bought some today? Since they are import products in both Europe and the US/Canada I think that would be a comparison of interest.
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